The international Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) recently launched a newsletter in Iraq which provides journalists with information about issues such as security and legal protection.

Press freedom in Latin America is under attack, according to four reports analyzing issues ranging from existing laws on access to information to harassment and violence against the press and the deaths of journalists in 2009. Read more below:

An online tool that maps incidents of government suppression against bloggers and social media users called Threatened Voices launched November 3.

Independent media in the junta-run Union of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation know formerly as Burma, is nearly a misnomer. News rarely reaches the outside world from the closed country, where journalists are subject to arrest, harassment and violence by authorities.